Mother Nature called back The Croc Hunter

I'm an environmentalist at heart. And yesterday I came home with sad news
for the conservationist commnity. Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, is
dead.

In respect to the tragedy, Animal Planet has held off showing his show for
the time being. At www.crocodilehunter.com, they posted this simple
message:

Media statement – 4 September 2006
Steve Irwin

At 11am today, 4 September 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally wounded by a
stingray barb to his heart while filming a sequence on Batt Reef off Port
Douglas for a new TV series.

Emergency services were called from Cairns Rescue Base and met Croc One,
Steve’s rescue vessel, at Low Isle on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Croc One crew performed constant CPR during the thirty-minute dash to
Low Isle, but Steve was pronounced deceased at 12 noon by Queensland
Ambulance Services personnel.

His producer and closest friend, John Stainton said on Croc One today,
“The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist
and one of the proudest dads on the planet. He died doing what he loves best
and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. Steve would have
said, ‘Crocs Rule!’”

The family wishes to advise that all donations go to Wildlife Warriors
Worldwide

donations@wildlifewarriors.org.au
Phone: +61 7 5436 2026


In one of his broadcasts, Steve had said "But I put my life on the line to
save animals." Indeed, he did. And he will be missed terribly.

Now his legacy is expected to be continued by his wife Terri, who in all
these years supported the whacky and dangerous antics of the insatiable
Steve, and their 8-year old daughter Bindi Sue Irwin who once admonished
visitors to the Australia Zoo to follow the rules because it's HER zoo.

All I can say is: Thanks, Steve. If crocs could talk, I'm sure they'd be
saying, "Steve rules!"


=)K